Bus Driver Health and Well-Being Programme

Keith Prince: Page 50 of the Safety, Health and Environment Quarterly report 'Quarter 3 2021/22' published on the TfL website mentions something called a “Bus Driver Health and Well-Being Programme”.

Please provide me with the documentary evidence (including initiating memorandums, management directives, presentations, objectives, budget, expenditure-to-date and monitoring principles) related to the establishment and implementation this programme.

The Mayor: The Bus Driver Health and Wellbeing Programme has been developed to help address the UCL Phase 2 report into covid-related bus driver deaths (https://content.tfl.gov.uk/phase-2-assessment-of-london-bus-driver-mortality-from-covid-19.pdf). It was initially focused on Transport for London (TfL) and bus operators’ response to the Covid 19 threat in relation to bus drivers’ health and has since expanded to look at how they can implement a strategic and targeted approach to health and wellbeing in the London bus industry.
As part of this programme, TfL and bus operators are currently putting in place voluntary health assessments to enable bus drivers to access wellbeing checks to help detect signs of potentially serious health conditions earlier and enable bus operators to assist drivers in getting the support they need. TfL is also working with the Design Council through a grant from the Employer Health Innovation Fund to support the delivery of the health assessments, to trial a support group for women and to deliver menopause training for bus operators in the London boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth.
Information on TfL’s Health and Wellbeing Programme was provided in an update to the Safety, Sustainability and Human Resources Panel in September 2021, and can be found at: https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s16459/sshrp-20210914-item06-measuring-employee-health.pdf
Your request to provide you with the documentary evidence (including initiating memorandums, management directives, presentations, objectives, budget, expenditure-to-date and monitoring principles) related to the establishment and implementation of the Bus Driver Health and Wellbeing Programme would require an extensive level of searching to be carried out by TfL. You will be aware that TfL resources are extremely limited at the moment and so searching for and then providing all such documents would not be an appropriate use of public resources. However, taking a proportionate approach, I attach to this answer the following:

The Mayor: 1633 20220609_ Health and Wellbeing Working Group Meeting Minutes_Redacted.pdf


  1633 Health and Wellbeing Working Group - Terms of Reference.pdf

Fatigue, Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge

Keith Prince: Page 50 of the Safety, Health and Environment Quarterly report 'Quarter 3 2021/22' published on the TfL website mentions something called the “Fatigue, Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge”
Please provide me with the documentary evidence (including initiating memorandums, management directives, presentations, objectives, budget, expenditure-to-date and monitoring principles) related to the establishment and implementation this programme.

The Mayor: The Fatigue, Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge (which has previously been mentioned in answers to Mayor’s Questions 2019/19621, 2020/0358, 2022/0330 and 2022/0327) launched in spring 2021 with ten successful bids totalling £739,259 to trial measures to help reduce fatigue and improve health and wellbeing of bus drivers.
Funding approval has been received for nine of the projects to date. Funding approval is currently being sought for the remaining DriveTech project with Arriva and Tower Transit which will deliver a series of ‘Driver’s Mate’ videos to communicate fatigue and wellbeing using nudge theory to achieve behaviour change.
Your request to provide you with documentary evidence (including initiating memorandums, management directives, presentations, objectives, budget, expenditure-to-date and monitoring principles) related to the establishment and implementation of the bus driver Fatigue, Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge programme would require an extensive level of searching to be carried out by Transport for London (TfL). You will be aware that TfL resources are extremely limited at the moment and so searching for and then providing all such documents would not be an appropriate use of public resources. However, taking a proportionate approach, I attach to this answer the following:

The Mayor: 1634 Bus Driver Fatigue & Wellbeing Innovation Challenge Questionnaire.pdf


  1634 FAQs.pdf


  1634 Fatigue and Health and Wellbeing Innovation Challenge Application Form.pdf


  1634 Innovation Challenge projects.pdf


  1634 TfL Innovation Challenge Guidance document 2021Redacted.pdf